Is it okay to wheel my bike around Aldi?...

[ebikeerwidnes]

It is a good point about people being OK with buggies and mobility scooters

However, these are for people that can;t otherwise walk around the shop - and kids can be put in trollies in theory (!)

whereas bikes are for people who are perfectly able to walk around with no large metal device poised to ram people

mind you - the MTB pedals on my ebike are far less dangerous that some people I have seen with a trolley
(including my 1o year old grand-daughter - I keep a VERY close eye on her if she is "helping"!!)

 

[Mazz]

I'm thinking of taking my car into Lidl with me.

 

[Poacher]

Nobody's batted an eyelid when I've used my Brompton in shopping trolley mode.

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Me too - I've probably boosted Brompton sales with the number of times I've demonstrated the fold / unfold! Plus you rarely buy more groceries than you can fit in the pannier.

 

[wafter]

There are things I'd do with a Brompton that I wouldn't do with a full size bike. I've partially folded mine to go into a 24 hour petrol station/mini market with no issues, though it was around midnight. I've partially folded it to use the loo at a Sainsburys and no one has turned a hair. This was around 9:30 am on a weekday. If all else fails, you could fold it and stick it in a trolley. I've seen local teenagers leave their MTBs in the foyer at Asda with no apparent problems. Perhaps it's a matter of picking your time and place.

Aye; night and day IME. Full size bike - everyone hates you and it needs to be locked outside. Folded Brompton you can pretty much get away with taking anywhere.

As much as I love to view the non-cycling public as irrational, bigoted scumbags I think there is a large, legitimate difference in footprint and peceived size between the two.

 

[ColinJ]

Young shopper's bike locked up at Todmorden Aldi earlier in the year...

It's a good point about it being much easier to cut through the stand than the lock. I reckon that an angle grinder could cut through that Sheffield stand in about 5 seconds!

 

[Mazz]

Young shopper's bike locked up at Todmorden Aldi earlier in the year...

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That's super cute❤️

 

[a.twiddler]

If you can persuade people that your bike is a mobility aid you might get round any negativity. I wouldn't take a bike inside my local Aldi though as it's usually heaving. They don't tend to open fresh checkouts until the ones in use are really full.

 

[presta]

I couldn't be bothered with the hassle, one hand to wheel the bike, one to carry the basket, and what to pick up the groceries?

it was customers who moaned.

I think I would too, but apart from one feisty old lady, neither the customers nor the staff seem fazed by this lot.

One of the security guards in my local Aldi was quite arsy about my bike, until told him was a member of staff

The security guard was ejecting an undesirable from my local Tesco last month, whilst he repeatedly yelled at the top of his voice "My mum used to work here! My mum used to work here!". It didn't seem to make much difference, I don't know why.

I did once see a security guard arguing with a kid who wanted to ride his petrol powered skateboard around Tesco.

 

[slowmotion]

A lady in the cosmetics section at the entrance of Boots let me stash my bike behind her counter for a while a couple of years ago. I was surprised and delighted. It's always worth asking.

 

[Drago]

Drago arrives home from a shopping trip to Lidl...

 

[Tenkaykev]

I presume you mean the down one - wonder if there is a speed setting for it?????

Yes, giving it further thought my phone has an inclinometer function so I could check the %climb. AIUI the speed is adjustable 😁

 

[Richard A Thackeray]

I used to take mine in to the local Lidl, after asking, Leaving it by the cashiers
Co-Op wasn’t a problem either, till that became B&M

Local small ASDA, “No, H&S risk”, but nothing said to feral local kids on scooters along aisles

 

[TrishE]

I work in a supermarket with a long row of stands in front of the store on camera so I haven't seen anyone wheel a bike around. If someone didn't have a lock I'm sure security or customer services would say to leave it behind them so it depends on the store. Colleagues wheel their bikes through and stash them in an area for them off the shop floor. The ones with motorcycles leave them between the bike stands, there's so many stands that there's room for everyone. Would hate to be working somewhere where a customer would be turned away, especially if safe bike parking wasn't provided.

 

[lazybloke]

I couldn't be bothered with the hassle, one hand to wheel the bike, one to carry the basket, and what to pick up the groceries?

I wasn't doing a weekly shop! Just buying a box of flapjacks to share on an overnight ride.

I think I would too, but apart from one feisty old lady, neither the customers nor the staff seem fazed by this lot.

Omg, aappalling behaviour (although i'm secretly jealous of the wheelie skills)

 

[MontyVeda]

To all the people claiming that it's irresponsible because the bicycle's wheels might leave a messy streak on the floor... shop floors get messed up really quickly, usually from customers fumbling a jar of pasta sauce or a big tub of yogurt, and all the customers who blindly push their trollies through the spillage. I've followed drips of milk up and down the aisles trying find which trolley it's in. When it's raining, everyone coming in messes up the floor. In the winter when we have to grit the entrance and carpark, that really leaves its mark! Bicycles really aren't a problem, yet by many, they're perceived to be.